Quotes About Art

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

I love to write poetry.

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Language is fossil poetry

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.